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Special Focus: Law and Literature This special focus issue of
Symbolism takes a look at the theoretical equation of law and
literature and its inherent symbolic dimension. The authors all
approach the subject from the perspective of literary and book
studies, foregrounding literature's potential to act as
supplementary to a very wide variety of laws spread over
historical, geographical, cultural and spatial grounds. The
theoretical ground laid here thus posits both literature and law in
the narrow sense. The articles gathered in this special issue
analyse Anglophone literatures from the Renaissance to the present
day and cover the three major genres, narrative, drama and poetry.
The contributions address questions of the law's psychoanalytic
subconscious, copyright and censorship, literary negotiations of
colonial and post-colonial territorial laws, the European 'refugee
debate' and migration narratives, fictional debates on climate
change, contemporary feminist drama and classic 19th-century legal
narratives. This volume includes two insightful analyses of poetic
texts with a special focus on the fact that poetry has often been
neglected within the field of law and literature research. Special
Focus editor: Franziska Quabeck, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat
Munster, Germany.
This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of
Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in
life writing. Looking at a range of autobiographical subgenres
(pathography, disability narratives, memoirs of migration,
autofiction) and different kinds of metaphors, the contributions
seek to 'map' the possibilities of metaphor for narratively framing
an individual life and for constructing notions of selfhood.
The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a
comparative approach to literature in order to understand how
migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and
expressive practices. This special issue of Symbolism: An
International Journal of Critical Aesthetics explores the
trans-American dimensions of Latina/o literature in a
trans-Atlantic context. Examining the theoretical implications
suggested by the comparison of the global North-global South
dynamics of material and aesthetic exchange, this volume highlights
emergent Latina/o authors, texts, and methodologies of interest in
for comparative literary studies. In the essays, literary scholars
address questions of the transculturation, translation, and
reception of Latina/o literature in the United States and Europe.
In the interviews, emergent Latina/o authors speak to the processes
of creative writing in a transnational context. This volume
suggests how the trans-American dialogues found in contemporary
Latina/o literature elucidates trans-Atlantic critical dialogues.
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Symbolism 16 (Hardcover)
Rudiger Ahrens, Florian Klager, Klaus Stierstorfer; Contributions by Keith A. Sandiford
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Essays in this special focus constellate around the diverse
symbolic forms in which Caribbean consciousness has manifested
itself transhistorically, shaping identities within and without
structures of colonialism and postcolonialism. Offering
interdisciplinary critical, analytical and theoretical approaches
to the objects of study, the book explores textual, visual,
material and ritual meanings encoded in Caribbean lived and
aesthetic practices.
While paratexts - among them headnotes, footnotes, or endnotes -
have never been absent from American literature, the last two
decades have seen an explosion of the phenomenon, including (mock)
scholarly footnotes, to an extent that they seem to take over the
text itself. In this Special Focus we shall attempt to find the
reasons for this astonishing development. In our first (diachronic)
section we shall explore such texts as might have fostered the
present boom, from fictions by Edgar Allan Poe to Vladimir Nabokov
to Mark Z. Danielewski. The second (synchronic) section, will
concentrate on paratexts by David Foster Wallace, perhaps the
"father" of the post-postmodern footnote, as well as those to be
found in novels by Bennett Sims, Jennifer Egan and Junot Diaz,
among others. It appears that, while paratexts definitely point to
a high degree of self-reflexivity in the author, they equally draw
attention to the textual and authorial functions of the works in
which they exist. They can thus cause a reflection on the
boundaries between genres like fiction, faction, and autobiography,
as well as serving to highlight a host of pedagogical and social
concerns that exist in the interstices between fiction and reality.
Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent
heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus
inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both
in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and
theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in
critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols
and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the
representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas?
How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the
academic fields contributing to diaspora studies? Which symbols and
symbolic practices inform the academic study of diasporas,
sometimes unconsciously or without being remarked on? To study
these phenomena is to engage in a dialogue that aims at refining
the theoretical and methodological vocabulary and practice of truly
transdisciplinary diaspora studies while attending to the
imperative of specificity that inheres in this emerging field. The
volume collects a range of analyses from social anthropology,
history and ethnography to literary and film studies, all combining
readings of individual symbolic practices with meta-theoretical
reflections.
Realisateur britannique de fictions politiques, Peter Kosminsky a
fait le choix d'investir une television aux potentialites
politiques evidentes. Ses scenarios filmiques offrent un traitement
holistique a une actualite recente, souvent abordee de maniere
parcellaire, voire sensationnelle. L'examen des oeuvres de Peter
Kosminsky permet de mieux comprendre le caractere atypique de son
parcours: comment, en optant pour la fiction il est parvenu a
porter a l'attention de tous, un travail de questionnement des
politiques gouvernementales au Royaume-Uni depuis les annees 1990.
L'ambition de cet ouvrage, qui revient sur l'ensemble des films de
Peter Kosminsky, est aussi de montrer comment la television
britannique s'est emparee de la fiction a valeur documentaire pour
retraiter l'actualite.
Die vorliegende lander- und schulartubergreifende Studie geht der
Frage nach, welchen Beitrag der Englischunterricht zur politischen
Bildung von Schulerinnen und Schulern leistet. Ausgehend von den
Anforderungen an einen politisch mundigen Burger, werden potentiell
politisch relevante Themen einer inhaltlichen und
didaktisch-methodischen Wurdigung unterzogen. Das qualitativ
angelegte Forschungsprojekt leistet einen Beitrag zur
Lehrwerkkritik. Auf der Basis der Untersuchungsergebnisse zeigt die
Arbeit Perspektiven auf, wie Potentiale fur die Entwicklung
politischer Bildung im Englischunterricht in einer neuen
Lehrwerkgeneration genutzt werden koennen.
Die Autorin untersucht die Reprasentation der amerikanischen
Ostkuste in den Lehrwerken des fortgeschrittenen
Englischunterrichts verlags- und schulartenubergreifend. Neben den
Zielen und Inhalten bezieht sie ebenfalls die Methodik und die
Medien in die lehrwerkkritischen Analysen mit ein. Als
landeskundliche Inhalte dienen Politik, Wirtschaft und Verkehr,
Historie, Kultur, Tourismus sowie der Raum und die Menschen, die
sowohl quantitativ als auch qualitativ untersucht werden. Die
Ergebnisse der Analysen, die sich insbesondere auf die urbanen
Zentren von New York, Washington DC und Florida beziehen,
veranschaulichen Schwerpunktsetzungen bei der Vermittlung der
amerikanischen Ostkuste und betonen Einsichten in die Darstellung
themenbezogener landeskundlicher Inhalte.
Shakespeare has been introduced to Hong Kong and China for more
than one hundred years. Not only are Shakespeare's characters and
stories known to the Chinese as part of the most treasured wealth
of world culture, his plays have also become class
This book contains an introduction centred on migration, exile, «
the other, and the experience of multicultural communities in the
modern world, followed by three sections of original poetry. In
Part I, poems deal with Britain, Canada, and China (mainly Hong
Kong). In Part II the focus shifts to Australia and then Europe
again (mainly France). Part III, entitled « Shards presents
fragmentary lyric voices suggesting the processes of cultural
fragmentation and change. In each part the poems connect with
individual experience, historical events such as the French,
Russian and Chinese revolutions, myth and art. Multicultural
experience as a modern reality, loss, regeneration and creativity
are all major concerns in the poems. Their many artistic references
include, among others, Apollinaire, Bonnefoy, Michael Bullock,
Rosalia de Castro, Dante, Robert Desnos, Anne Frank, Li Po,
Magritte, Albert Namajira, Sidney Nolan, Bill Reid, Laura Wee Lay
Laq and Zhang Ji. From the experience of living in modern
multicultural societies, the writer envisages the kind of
international modernity that tries to preserve the dignity of
individuals and humane values. Such modernity has emerged from
cultures fragmented by revolutions, globalization, and rapid
change. These poems occupy both hemispheres, inhabit temperate and
tropical zones, and make cultural transfers across them.
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